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Goodreads Staffers Share Their Top Three Books of the Year
Every December, as we wrap up our annual Goodreads Reading Challenge, we ask our book-loving colleagues a simple yet incredibly tough question:
What were your three favorite books you read this year?
Oh, the agony! The internal debates! The anguish we caused our coworkers as they whittled down their lists to just their top few books! Hopefully our carefully considered staff picks will inspire additions to your Want to Read shelf.
You'll notice that our reading habits run the gamut. But careful perusal unveils some office favorites, including lots of love for The Vanishing Half, the novels of Yaa Gyasi, and Ijeoma Oluo's So You Want to Talk About Race.
Now it's your turn! What are your top three books of the year? Please share them with us in the comments!
Oh, the agony! The internal debates! The anguish we caused our coworkers as they whittled down their lists to just their top few books! Hopefully our carefully considered staff picks will inspire additions to your Want to Read shelf.
You'll notice that our reading habits run the gamut. But careful perusal unveils some office favorites, including lots of love for The Vanishing Half, the novels of Yaa Gyasi, and Ijeoma Oluo's So You Want to Talk About Race.
Now it's your turn! What are your top three books of the year? Please share them with us in the comments!
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Your turn! What are your top three reads of 2020? Share them with us in the comments!
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My top reads from 20201) Caste by Isabele Wilkerson
2) A Promised Land by Barack Obama
3) We Should Have Seen It Coming by Gerald Sieb
1) Name of the Wind2)Court of Thorns and Roses
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The Girl with the Louding VoiceSuch a Fun Age
The Vanishing Half
1.Mountains of Trouble by Clare Bills 2. Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris 3. Moment of Lift by Melinda Gates
Leave the World Behind, American Dirt, and The Midnight Library
All the Devils are Here, Louise Penny; The Jane Austen Society, Natalie Jenner; Anxious People, Fredrik Backman
1. Another Gospel by Alisa Childers2. The Lord is my Shepherd by Robert Morgan
3. The Magnificent Obsession by Anne Graham Lotz
1 Apollo’s Arrow, Nicholas Christakis2 Grant, Ron Chernow
3 Disgrace, J.M. Coetzee
1) Homegoing
2) The Vanished Birds
3) Snow Crash
2) The Vanished Birds
3) Snow Crash
Last Time I Lied by Riley Sager, Magic Lessons by Alice Hoffman, and The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
1. Code Name Verity2. Night of the Dragon
3. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
1. Circe by Madeline Miller2. The Splendid and the Vile by Larson
3. John Adams by David McCullough
Girl, Woman, OtherThe Evening and the Morning
This Tender Land
1. I miss you When I Blink2. The Exiles
3. Compassionate Conversations: How to Speak and Listen from the Heart
The Splendid and the VileDear Edward
The Paris Library
Not surprised that there is very little history in evidence here. This is why we have lived through 4 years of insanity, nobody reads or knows anything about history. Literature is great but it’s not everything.
Hollywood Park, Redhead by the Side of the Road, Afterlife
1. Long Bright River 2. Apeirogon
3. Shuggie Bain
When the Storm Ends by Rebecca L MarshThe Thunder of Justice by Ted and Maureen Flynn
The Rift Between Us by Rebecca L Marsh
News of the World - Paulette JilesThe Mirror & The Light - Hillary Mantel
Alex Trebek: The Answer Is - Alex Trebek
Les Miserables by Victor HugoThe Lies of Locke Lamora Series by Scott Lynch
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry by Fredrik Backman
City of Thieves by David BenoffThe Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larsen
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
1. Network Effect by Martha Wells https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...2. The Address Book by Deirdre Mask
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4...
3. The Dragons, the Giant, the Women by Wayetu Moore
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4...
A California Christmas by Brenda Novak, A Reunion Of Rivals, Reese Ryan, The Last Cowboy Christmas, Maisey Yates. There are so many more.
Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zara Neale HurstonOn Beauty, Zadie Smith
Say Nothing, Patrick Radden Keene
1. The Dutch House2. The Fountainhead
3. Ragtime
Oh, oh, you missed one heck of a thriller in HARM'S WAY by Clarke Wallace. Beacon Publishing Group.'Death's a step away when taking on the impossible'.
An all-nighter for sure.
NW.
Ordinary GraceThe Bluest Eye
The Sun Does Shine
Anxious People
The Girl with the Louding Voice
1. American Dirt2, Dutch House
3. Lager Queen of Minnesota
1. A Gentleman in Moscow 2. A Dog's Purpose
3. The Stationery Shop
The Truth About the Harry Quebert AffairThe Testaments
Dune
1. Caste-Isabel Wilkerson2. The Girl With the Louding Voice-Abi Dare
3, Dear Edward-Ann Napolitano
1 Blood Orange by Harriet Tyce 2 The First Last Kiss by Ali Harris
3 The Cherry Tree Cafe by Heidi Swain
What a hard choice!! Mexican Gothic
Rebecca
The Night Circus
1. Fallout: The Hiroshima Coverup and the ReporterWho Revealed It to the World. Lesley M. M. Blume
2. The Hare with the Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance
Edmund de Waal
3. The Order of the Day. Eric Vuillard
Uncle Sam's Kids --being a teenager in a military dependents school in the 1950's by Randy BartlettBorn a Crime by Trevor Noah
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
1) If Only I Could Tell You by Hannah Beckerman (I could barely put it down to go to sleep, and then I dreamt about what the big reveal would be. I've never done that before. Made me cry twice.)2) The Wives by Tarryn Fisher (Read it on the beach and got a sunburn because I was that into it. The twist was *chef's kiss*)
3) Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng (Suggested it for a book club after finishing Little Fires Everywhere. I loved this book, and the book club truly discussed it for 3 hours. SO good, but definitely more dreary than LFE.)
Dutch House by Ann Patchett; Group by Christie Tate; The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
1. All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr 2. Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
3. Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan
A Place for UsDisappearing Earth
Tender at the Bone
The Afterwards by E.K. Johnston The Chosen Ones by Veronica Roth
Winterbourne Home for Vengeance and Valor by Ally Carter
The Glass Universe, by Dava Sobel. It has science, women's lives, striving people, romance, etc. And it is nonfiction!
2. Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love - Jonathan Van Ness
3. Remarkable Creatures - Tracy Chevalier
OR With the Fire on High - Elizabeth Acevado (I can't choose!)